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Manitoba Alpha Delta Kappa Biennial Recognition Award of Excellence 2020
The Manitoba Alpha Delta Kappa Biennial Recognition Award recognizes achievement, contribution to education and benefits to school and community. Submitted by RWTA members Arlene Billeck & Pat Opalko for Sheila Stark-Perreault, MB Alpha Delta Kappa President 2020-2022
On behalf of all Alpha Delta Kappa sisters in Manitoba, we are honoured to award Sue Marlatt, Manitoba AΔK President-Elect for 2020 - 2022, the Manitoba Provincial Biennial Recognition Award of Excellence for 2020.
Sue is a dynamo. She is talented, creative, positive, caring, full of energy, a sister and leader. She is a loving wife, a protective mother to three adult children, a devoted daughter, a caring sister, a warm friend and an inspirational mentor and educator.
A little about Sue, let me add that she is a multitasker. Presently, Sue is a Faculty Advisor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Winnipeg. She has a Master’s Degree in Education with the focus on Inclusion. She is a strong advocate of parent-child connection with school, a strong believer in inclusive education, multiage learning, restitution, with a strong belief in the reading writing connection tied to authentic experiences. Regie Routman, North American author and educational leader and literacy coach, spent a number weeks in residency a few years back mentoring and guiding Strathmillan teachers and principal Sue. In quoting from Regie’s book “Literacy Essentials” Regie writes “It was a great privilege to teach, coach, and lead alongside Sue.” Regie continues, “An exceptional and visionary principal, Sue Marlatt and staff established an intellectual, trusting and joyful school culture.”
In St. James-Assiniboia School Division, Sue started her career working with special needs students and continued on as a Special Needs Integration Resource Teacher, a grade two teacher and a PIA. She has been the Division’s Math Coordinator, the Language Arts Coordinator establishing Learning Communities surrounding literacy development and assisted schools in establishing Literacy Labs, a vice principal at Strathmillan and principal at Brooklands and Strathmillan Schools
Her awards include: • “Yes, I Can Outstanding Teacher Award” 1995 • Nominated for the Lieutenant Governor’s
Outstanding Teacher Award in 1997 • “Canada’s Outstanding Principal, Learning
Partnership Recognition” 2009, • and named “Outstanding Principal of the Year” across Canada in 2013.
Sue has led professional development workshops locally & internationally. She presented in Atlanta, Georgia, in 2016, for the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development. Her topic was “Achieving the Unexpected: Creating Schools where all Learners thrive.”
Sue is a leader in her global community. As principal she, along with her staff, encouraged/ inspired the students and, I might add, parents to care for their community at home and abroad. An example I remember was when her student leadership group chose to fundraise to buy a goat for a village in Africa. The idea was that students would donate coin for this project and each classroom would be represented on a bar graph. Each day the students would check the graph in the front hall near the office and go home to tell their family they needed more coin so their classroom on the graph would be the ‘tallest’. In the end, to everyone’s surprise, when the coins were counted, they had enough money to buy 12 goats.
As a leader in the community, Sue is very involved in her church. Presently, she is president of the altar guild at St. Andrews Anglican Church. She and her church group have organized and participated in Souper Sundays, fun Old Fashion Next page →
Hoedown Evening, Fun at Halloween Days, and Hamper projects.
She is conscious of keeping well and fit. I experienced that the first day I ever taught at Strathmillan when at one minute after 12 she rolled the television out from her classroom to the hall, put on a video tape and did her yoga or exercised for 30 minutes! Now, during her days, you will find her walking with her husband and grand dogs her ten thousand steps.
Sue has many hobbies . . . learning to quilt with her close friends, crafting and making cards weekly with her mom and sisters, photography and gardening. Did I mention she is also an art collector!
Sue has stepped right up to take a leadership role in Alpha Delta Kappa and all sisters are benefitting from her ideas and kind leadership. She is a member of MB AΔK Beta chapter, is a past president of Beta chapter and presently is Manitoba President Elect and Membership Consultant for Manitoba Alpha Delta Kappa. On behalf of all sisters in Manitoba, may I present Sue with the Biennium Award of Excellence for 2020.
Editor's note: Sue is a member of RTAM.
In Memoriam
February 2019
Catherine Thexton – Winnipeg, MB
December 2019
Sharon Freed – Winnipeg, MB
The above RTAM members who passed, were regretfully missed from previous editions of KIT. We sincerely apologize to the families.
May 2020
Lorraine Genaille – The Pas, MB
July 2020
Norma Jonasson - Brandon, MB
August 2020
Marie E. Brasher – Winnipeg, MB Lawrence G. Carriere – Winnipeg, MB Roger E. Cathcart – Winnipeg, MB Vona E. Cochrane – Brandon, MB Alvin N. Cooper – Winnipeg, MB Shirley M. Cummins – Brandon, MB David W. Frye – Winnipeg, MB Peter J. Klewchuk – West Kelowna, BC William M. Kotelko – Stonewall, MB John D. Maw – Brandon, MB Elizabeth M. Nathu – Winnipeg, MB Patricia H. Ojah – Winnipeg, MB S. M. Wasi Rizvi – Oakville, ON Mark R. Singleton – Winnipeg, MB Doris M. Stone – Brandon, MB Joan V. Trump – Winnipeg, MB
September 2020
Barbara A. Sarson – Winnipeg, MB Carolyn L. Crippen – Victoria, BC Keith P. Tataryn – Winnipeg, MB Mary Ann Monkman – Woodmore, MB Mary C. Lutes – Winnipeg, MB Alex Kreshewski – Swan River, MB
Life Members (Presented at age 90 to RTAM members)
August 2020
Lois Anne Forsberg – Brandon, MB Janet B. Lundman – Victoria, BC Joan M. L. Madden – Winnipeg, MB Janyt Zemlak – Surrey, BC
September 2020
Phyllis Briercliffe – Pinawa, MB Myrtle Hughes – Portage la Prairie, MB Sheila Purvis – Red Deer, AB Kenneth B. Tully – Parksville, BC
October 2020
Elizabeth F. Brownlee – Winnipeg, MB Mary E. Cartlidge – Selkirk, MB Martha P. Colquhoun – Winnipeg, MB Herbert H. Hoehne – Minitonas, MB Surendra M. Mehta – Toronto, ON Rudy Pauls – Winnipeg, MB S. Saul Rifkin – Winnipeg, MB Marie T. Vigier – Winnipeg, MB Norma V. Wiebe – Brandon, MB
